Eileen collins
Eileen collins
The first female pilot of a Space Shuttle as well as the first female commander of a U.S. Spacecraft.
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth19 November 1956
CityElmira, NY
finest love people space truly worked
The people that I have worked with have just been superb, just the finest professionals, people who truly love the space program.
scholars-and-scholarship shoes
I've been in your shoes many times so I understand.
expect external fall large personally pieces tank
Personally , I did not expect any large pieces of foam to fall off the external tank
definitely mission
We have definitely accomplished all our mission objectives.
absolutely confident discovery entry great thinking
Discovery is in absolutely great shape. I'm pretty confident about the entry (into the atmosphere) and I'm thinking about the landing.
certainly safer worried
This situation, I believe, will certainly be safer for entry. I'm actually not that worried about it.
ball catch hit move nervous quite spot throw whether
I was quite nervous about whether I could throw out the ball and hit it spot on. He didn't even have to move to catch it. I was quite happy.
commander matter mission whether woman
Whether your commander is a man or woman doesn't really matter when it comes to getting your mission done.
bring full potential shuttle space station
Getting the shuttle back up there is just going to bring the space station back to its full potential.
aware commander cool crew difference female honestly job male rest woman
I can honestly say that in my job day to day, I'm not really aware that there's any difference between male and female crew members. It may be cool to the rest of the world that a woman is the commander of this flight. I think that's great.
believe gap previous seen similar
I believe the gap fillers are similar to what we had seen in previous flights.
whenever wish
I wish I could come back up here whenever I wanted.
opportunity rest time whenever wish
I wish I could come back here whenever I wanted to have these views. And also the rest of the world had the opportunity to come up here, but it is time to end the mission.
columbia focused job thoughts
I have had a lot of thoughts about Columbia and I will have thoughts after the landing, We're all going to be very focused ... on the job at hand.